There is no person, no theorist so reckless as he who says that the facts speak for themselves.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Knowing you, I understood myself.

What other people think of me is none of my business.

I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.

And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.

The only one that can do what I do is me. Lot of people had to die for me to be me. You wanna be me?

A modern, autonomous, and thoroughly trained Air Force in being at all times will not alone be sufficient, but without it there can be no national security.

I really don't believe in magic.

Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women

I am not the Prime Minister of French capitalism. I am the Prime Minister of France.

I have no regrets about anything that I've ever done, about whom I've been involved with, so forth and so on.